Bailey Reutzel

Subway sandwich shops are using Paydiant's mobile payments, offers and loyalty platform as part of the restaurant chain's mobile wallet app, which it plans to launch this year.

CardFlight, a mobile payments hardware and software developer, raised $1.6 million in funding from New York-based ff Venture Capital.

Several political candidates have begun accepting bitcoins for campaign contribution—but the future of this practice hinges on a Federal Election Commission decision coming by October 28.

Daon, an identity services provider, is providing its biometric authentication system to online payments provider Optimal Payments to support high-risk businesses with stringent Know Your Customer requirements.

Cardlytics has adopted a new logo, which it says reflects the company's evolution as an advertising platform for consumers, merchants and financial institutions.

Synchology's Branded Payments Platform allows merchants to offer prepaid cards with their brands' loyalty and rewards programs.

Alan Reiner, 30, thought he wouldn't find any career more interesting than missile defense simulations, but the self-described nerd left physics recently to work full-time on an ultra-secure Bitcoin wallet, Armory.

SecondMarket, which runs an online marketplace for illiquid assets such as closely held community bank shares, has created a private investment vehicle to invest in bitcoins, the decentralized virtual currency.

CardSpring has launched CardSpring Connect, bringing marketing tools and online performance tracking to its local business clients and enabling them to create online-to-offline promotions.

Merchants that use Square will be able to use it with Intuit's QuickBooks accounting software, as Intuit adds support for the mobile card reader in the newest version of its program, according to multiple reports.

Italian mobile point of sale company Jusp has launched a mobile chip-and-PIN card reader as a plug-in device, veering from the more common approach of using a separate Bluetooth device.

Three banks in France have launched Paylib, a PayPal-like online payment system — and they're betting that France is just different enough that they can succeed on their home turf with a strategy that has had mixed results in the U.S.

As Isis forges ahead with its nationwide launch — despite losing the active participation of two of its four issuer partners — it's becoming clearer that mobile may not displace credit cards as easily as it can displace prepaid and cash.

Facebook is rolling out its “Autofill with Facebook” function with PayPal, Braintree and Stripe, eliminating the need for consumers to type their billing information on smartphone screens.

Simplee, which provides a cloud-based patient payments system, received a $10 million investment led by Heritage Group, which represents the top hospital systems in the U.S.

Before there was Bitcoin, there was Ven, a digital currency that launched six years ago as part of the Hub Culture social network.

BitPay, a Bitcoin payment services provider, has added support for Intuit's popular Quickbooks software.

As some companies attempt to transform hashtags, the keywords and phrases that make content searchable on Twitter and Facebook, into a trigger for a payment, Chirpify aims to let the tags live a double life through its new actiontag system.

Many banks consider money transmission to Somalia too risky because of concerns about terrorism. But U.S. Bancorp continues to pursue a relationship with Dahabshiil, the largest Somali money transmitter, whereas Barclays dropped the business citing the risk.

LevelUp's software development kit (SDK), released last week, allows companies such as Zuppler to add mobile payments without drawing users away from the merchant's branded mobile app.